[Insight-developers] gzipped image IO

[Kent Williams]

It is certainly possible; the question is, how would this be integrated i=
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the ITK IO classes?  It looks from the source code as though it might be=20
sufficient to hook the gzlib routines into metaImage.cxx -- the gzread wo=
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on either compressed or uncompressed files.


More to the point, what sort of logic did older versions of SNAP use to=20
determine if a file was gzip compressed?=20
On Friday 09 May 2003 08:24 am, Paul Yushkevich wrote:
> Would it make sense and be possible to allow MetaImageIO and some other
> IO classes to read gzipped images?  I noticed that the AnalyzeImageIO
> class does have the ability to do so, so the necessary libraries are
> already in ITK.
>
> It would be very useful for our SNAP tool, because the older version
> could read gzip files, and its user base is used to having the images
> zipped up.
>
> Paul
>
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